Digital BW, The Print

With your workflow, I don't see any advantage to using ABW.




On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:57 PM, davidkachel <david@...> wrote:

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> Been thinking about this as I wrestle with B&W options and want to get
> opinions from the list.
> I work strictly in B&W, BUT (and this is a big but) I make brown tone
> prints. VERY brown!
> I have several years invested into getting what I want out of color ink
> sets. First HP (big mistake; great inks, crappy printers), now Epson. I
> don't convert my images to B&W, but rather work them in RGB and then the
> top layer of my stack is a color layer that lays down the brown tone. It
> works great. If I want to remove some of the brown from the highlights, it
> is easy enough to add a mask to that color layer.
> i have only played, very little, with ABW. It does appear to be very
> limited and the most brown I seem to be able to get out of it (Sepia pushed
> to the max) is less than I normally create with my regular approach.
> Now, my thought of the day is this...
> Since I would be pushing ABW to the limit of its color anyway, strictly
> from the standpoint of image permanence, wouldn't it be true that, give or
> take a couple of years, I might just as well stick with my RGB approach? In
> other words, making very sepia prints with ABW, I presume I would lose most
> of the longevity advantage of ABW and therefore, there would be little
> reason for me to use it.
> I'd also like to hear from others about how you've dealt with the
> limitations you've found with ABW.
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